 | 1829 - 488 sider
...; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies in adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart!"— The Ettrick Shepherd. BURMESE TEMPLES. IN the Burman towns and tillages the number of temples seem... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 sider
...it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventures ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1830 - 266 sider
...; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her •whole soul in the traffic of affection...prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | 1830 - 206 sider
...her avarice seeks for hidden treasttres. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure j she-embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and, if shipwrecked, her case is"liopeless— : for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. " To a man, the disappointment of love may occasion... | |
 | James Hogg - 1834 - 352 sider
...empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures; she sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection,...prospects of felicity; but he is an active -being; he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure;... | |
 | 1863 - 622 sider
...empire; it is there her -avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her. whole soul in the traffic of affection...a man the disappointment of love may occasion some bittar pangs: it wounds some feelings of tenderness — it blasts some prospects of felicity; but he... | |
 | 1834 - 428 sider
...tho trafic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her cause is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of tho heart. To a man, the disappointment of love may occasion some bitter pangs ; it wounds the feelings of tenderness — it blasts some prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being —... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 sider
...empires; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 sider
...— it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being; he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Silas Jones - 1836 - 362 sider
...history of the affections. The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition seeks for hidden treasures. She embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart." Its abuses are manifested in our attachments to unworthy objects, and, from its force, being led to... | |
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But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures; she sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in... 
